Very sad news today. This was the first song of Nanci’s I heard. I had never really listened to any artists of her genre before, being more of a hard rock fan, but she opened a door for me that significantly expanded my musical boundaries. RIP Nanci, I love your work.

@Nikkithedog-t6b

3 жыл бұрын

I had the exact same experience, then spent years exploring everything she did.

@deanbarratt8696

3 жыл бұрын

Same here: as a 20 something, country and folk held little interest to me until something made me buy little love affairs - and hearing Nanci's glorious voice for the first time blew me away. It was I wish it would rain that I loved the most, and 30 years later I often sang in to my baby daughter when rocking her to sleep. A unique and underappreciated talent, who made the most beautiful and timeless music.

@longterm11581

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, saw her for the first time on Austin City Limits in the 80's singing this song, and that was IT for me.....

@johnmackinnon1026

2 жыл бұрын

I have to say,Tim, I'm in the same boat, I came to hear her music in 2017,..been a fan ever since.

Aw it's so sad 😢💔 that Nanci Griffith is no longer with us 😢 R.I.P Nanci 🙏🌹

Rest in peace Nancy, It feels like I have just lost one of my best friends tonight!

@sarahgilchrist7673

3 жыл бұрын

one of the few musicians I've cried when I heard the news. I feel like I've lost a friend.

@faithcampbell1632

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same 😭

@moonlitme

5 ай бұрын

her and John Prine...@@sarahgilchrist7673

RIP Nancy, you were one of the greatest, a national treasure to be sure and a fixture in my musical life.

For me, Nanci will be forever frozen just like this.

@b1j

3 ай бұрын

I don’t think I realized it until I read your comment, but that is exactly what I’ve been feeling these past couple of years.

An angel is singing.

A talented, dignified and understated lady has died and I for one will miss her presence, even though we never met. Thank you Nanci

When my daughter was almost 2 I was playing this song in my truck. She was in her car seat and though she could barely talk she would sing out "faaaace clean"....it was so cute!!! I will always love this woman's music. From Once in a Very Blue Moon ... and on out. 😪

I remember exactly where I was when I heard her voice for the first time....hooked!...Love her voice, always will xxx

@stepheng8779

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, not many I can say that about. Andy Kershaw played tracks from the newly released Lone Star State Of Mind LP on his radio show, blew me away.

@lizgreen6079

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. In a Woolworths store. Stocking up on unnecessary plastic items. I was also hooked. RIP Nancy x

Rest In Peace Nanci.. A bright light gone from our sight but you will forever shine in our hearts and in our souls.. 🙏

@lindahornig8849

2 жыл бұрын

A true tragedy

Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Iris DeMent, Tish Hinojosa some of my all time favorites.

@janetownley

8 ай бұрын

Tish Hinojosa! I love music, saw her live on Martha’s Vineyard, learned to sing and play a whole bunch of her songs

I'm gratified to hear how she impacted others as she impacted me. RIP. Godspeed.

I’m so heartbroken that Nanci has passed. Her songs brought me thru some rough times. Godspeed, Nanci. Teach the Angels to sing! They’ve never heard such a voice!! and we, unfortunately, will never hear one like it again. 💔💔

Such a soft spoken powerhouse voice! She’s an exercise in contradiction and I thank God for her. Her music has comforted and healed me over the years!

@johnager9428

4 жыл бұрын

This girl is an angel in disguise 💖

@faithcampbell1632

4 жыл бұрын

John Ager she certainly sounds like one.

@markw4206

3 жыл бұрын

"Exercise in contradiction" indeed! I want to describe her as a meek powerhouse, or a gentle forest fire or something. What a beautiful soul and a great loss.

@faithcampbell1632

3 жыл бұрын

@@markw4206 I hadn’t heard of her passing!! That’s just awful 😢 I’m sitting here with tears😭

@markw4206

3 жыл бұрын

@@faithcampbell1632 Yes, it's crushing - no other way to put it! Been a fan since the late 80s here.

Used to cover this song and several other of Nanci's tunes in a band i was in, she was a shining light back in the 80's when good music was at a premium , in the following decades her standards never dropped and the world is a sadder place without her in it . RIP Nanci

RIP Nanci. Thank you so much.

A true Texas treasure.

Singers like this bring more joy to the world than the whole bunch of politicians

I love her cuteness and quirky voice. She never would marry me tho, and HELL YES I hold it against her! 🤭

Nanci left a beautiful legacy with her music.

Helluva a performer. Her charisma dominates the stage.

Man alive,..this lady is a musical treasure,....

I'm all tore up RIP Nanci Griffith You always moved me God bless you LOVE ♥️

I'm still singing these songs with my brother and sister.. Love Nancy... X

Proud to say I knew her back in the Houston, Rockefellers, Lyle Lovett days. RIP.

@verasmith4767

3 жыл бұрын

Rockefellers Wow. A lot of singers got their start there.

love in a memory...sparkles like diamonds indeed...and it doesn't have to be romantic love. The past is sooooo seductive.

God bless her, RIP Nanci... we'll keep on listening. Thank you for all of the great music.

I will miss her. Her music was magic and will live on!

I feel in love with Nancy at first sight many years ago at a concert in Austin. We are the same age but she is gone - it's so sad to lose this beautiful talent so young. RIP

Health is like the weather - you don't control it; it controls you. Such a pleasure to have heard this wonder of country girl singing !

My first voice crush, don't git much better ...it's rainin in my world rest easy Nanci ,,,harmonies and angels

Nanci 'sparkles like diamonds'....she will be sorely missed. RIP, Angel, your music will live on 'til the end of time.

i have all of her albums on 33 vinyl records

Rest in peace, beautiful Nanci. Tonight is a blue moon and I am sending up a prayer for you.

She was great. Listened to her since the 80's.

Little Love Affairs is my all time favorite Nanci Griffith album.

She wasn’t just a part of the tapestry of music life when I lived in Austin in the 80s, she was a star of it, which is saying something, Angela Strehli, Albert Collins, the Vaughn bros. The very best of a landscape of endless talent. Funny, you don’t see it that way at the Time, Seeing Nanci pass the guitar around at a singer songwriter circle at the Chicago house, seeing The Iceman dancing with his wife at Antones on his night off. You don’t miss it Til it’s gone, Nanci is missed already, what a miracle she is

She had a Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz innocence. No matter what, she just could not be sunk. Loving her spirit - but I wish it would rain.

That deserved a standing ovation and roses thrown at her feet : )

Sure did have a sparkle in that voices‼️

She is so amazing and talented but also.....so beautiful.

Woke up thinking of this song today. Can’t believe it is nearly a year since she’s been gone. Lovely to see a video where she is looking happy and healthy and young. It was late eighties when I first heard her, thanks to Terry Wogan or Radio 2. ❤️

Nanci Griffith was so talented and she always had great musicians play with her. Such a great musical treasure!

Nancy what a talent...greatly missed x

I'm 44, I feel as if I was cheated out of this woman's music! I never saw her on anything or knew anything about her, I had heard that a woman of her name wrote Love at The Five and Dime, but they never played any of her songs or videos on anything I ever saw. I finally found a CD at the flea market a couple years ago, and bought it becuase I recognized her as 'that' songwriter.... then after enjoying it looked her up, and discovered she had just passed away! Now I find all of her videos on youtube, and it's like "why in the world did nobody ever tell me this woman existed?" She's fantastic! The record companies and the music industry sure knows how to screw up a good thing.

@b1j

3 ай бұрын

So true. She was overlooked by millions who now revere her.

With all due respect, I think that she looks especially beautiful in this recording.

One of the Prettiest Ladies to grace the stage She could melt my heart with her smile any time

@unclefester9113

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if she still looks like she's 12. What a voice. I learned of her - looking at different John Prine videos - and this angel popped up. ( Actually - the first song I heard from her was the Woolworth song )

@wrdlmbrt1956

3 жыл бұрын

She looks so ... " Petite " but tall some how. She has such a beautiful voice and smile... you automatically feel relaxed watching her perform... and what a song writer! Very talented woman! 👍👍😎

RIP Nancy. Your music will always remind me of a fun chapter of my life; I will forever smile and sing to your music.

She is such a cutie pie!

Thank you Lord for Nanci and everything she was! I so enjoyed her music, first seeing her in Telluride with a dreadnought guitar, a sun dress and just a wonderful ability to draw the crowd into her world, all alone on that big stage. Lord, may she rest in your everlasting arms!!

@MOGGS1942

2 жыл бұрын

Ffs. spare us sane people all your religious crap.

My mom used to play some of her music i didnt think much of it til now. My mom had good taste lol

@janhammer39

5 жыл бұрын

thanks for tuning in.

One of my all time faves, and this version in particular is such a force of solace and salvation. Many hearts will have mended listening to this, and so it'll never grow old.

Love her song, like her moves !

dark clouds could'nt hide this girls "little light"

Einzigartige Sängerin

Absolutely beautiful voice and song ❤️🌹

RIP Nanci...Thank you for the music

Nancy is just so cute in this performance. Sparkling eyes, beautiful hair, and fun-filled expression on her face while she tells her story. Her voice is so pure except when she throws in a little growl for emphasis. The little dance step at 1:55 is adorable. This is my favorite of all her performances on KZread. My next favorite is "Love at the Five and Dime" as she tells the story about Woolworth's elevator chime.

This is wonderful! What a musical soul… that 3rd verse 🥰

Im a Townes fan and following his path also led to find Nancy. What a talent. She has felt v much part of my music family for years. We will miss this drlightful woman

I miss Nanci so much! My late husband and I loved her concerts in Seattle in the 80s. When I hear one of her songs, it transports me back to those wonderful days.

@janhammer39

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking in with us.

@MIKECNW

3 жыл бұрын

Miss her? Think she's still around.

@jeffschroeder357

3 жыл бұрын

@@MIKECNW, apparently she has retired from performing. Last time out was around 2013.

I Love this Song to play along with my Mandolyn . . . . as with ALL her Songs ! Discovered & fell in-Love with her 95 when I first heard "Other Voices . . . Other Rooms " & have not turned back ! Saw her in Albuquerque in 98 & handed her a Poem I wrote about her & how she made me fall in Love with Music all over again . . . I Hoped it moved her as much as her Music has moved me !

An angel.

She has a heart of gold!

From the first time i heard you Nancy i fell in love with your Voice. whata a beautiful ❤️ woman as well The first time I saw you was in the Late late show in Ireland you sang From a Distance and i was hooked straight away ❤. R .I P Nancy .

What brilliant writing, what a great performance.

0:01 Oh, I wish it would rain And wash my face clean I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here Love in a memory Sparkled like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears 0:32 Once I had a love from the Georgia pines Who only cared for me I wanna find that love of twenty-two Here at thirty-three I've got a heart on my right One on my left neither suits my needs No, the one I love lives a-way out West And he never will need me 0:55 Oh, I wish it would rain And wash my face clean I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here Love in a memory Sparkled like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears 1:26 I'm gonna pack up my two step shoes And head for the Gulf Coast plains I wanna walk the streets of my own hometown Where everybody knows my name I wanna ride the waves down in Galveston When the hurricane blow in 'cause that Gulf Coast water tastes sweet as wine When your heart's rollin' home in the wind 1:49 Oh, I wish it would rain And wash my face clean I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here Love in a memory Sparkled like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears 2:18 When the diamonds fall, darlin' They burn like tears

Love this song, so sad I only learned of her after her passing.. such a brilliant and beautiful human

Love when she just lets herself enjoy the music !

On of the most beautiful voices ever!

@janhammer39

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sharon for checking in with us.

Love this song.

Really charming dance steps! A great voice too.

@janhammer39

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for visiting my channel.

I wish it would rain wash my face clean I want a dark cloud to hide in me love in a memory sparkles like diamonds when the diamonds fall it burns like tears

Here in Texas, this is how we remember Dear Nanci :) xoxox

In April 2013 Nanci Griffith remembered George Jones on her own website . Since then nothing. I mean absolutely nothing. Not on her website; and not anywhere else. I hope she is well and happy. There are times when I need to weep; and Nanci Griffith has some of the very few songs that can make me weep and make me better at the same time.

@janhammer39

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Glyn for those reminders.

Nice, I never heard this song until today. She is doing the two step here and I don't recall ever seeing her do that either. "When the diamonds fall they burn like tears". I can't bring her back but I can still play her music.

She looks so young and sweet that is how we' ll remember her.

Lovely! A friend of mine wrote Nancy's biography and lives very near her and is great friends with her! A lovely lady!

@georgeorwell4534

7 жыл бұрын

You're indeed fortunate. Her voice lives in beauty.

@ginogroppi1

7 жыл бұрын

Any chance of letting me know were I can get Nancy's Biography . Would love to read it .

@DeeMoback

6 жыл бұрын

I thought I met her in Tallahassee,florida in late 1970's.....I must be wrong according to the biography....oh well we were all young then.....I must be mistaken

I loved this song. Now it just hurts. Aloha, beautiful soul.

One of my absolute favorites.

I only heard about Nanci from the BBC minute, I love her ever since ❤️

Outstanding woman and performer!

Nanci was a gift to all. Magic

She's really enjoying herself

@notdream7862

5 жыл бұрын

drycha yeah, usually singers take it so seriously! I tend to enjoy it more when I can see they’re enjoying themselves too.

Love Nanci. 🩷

I saw Nanci in person in Lawrence, Kansas years ago. I just love her.

@janhammer39

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve for checking in with us.

She is SO perfect

Such a great song by a great artist

I like when she sings solo. She's perfect

@janhammer39

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rudolph for checking in with us.

rest in peace Nanci :(

There is only one Nanci.

She is adorable.

@janhammer39

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for visiting The Hammer Works.

Love in a memory sparkles like diamonds when the diamonds cough fall it hurts like tears

I'll never forget the way I felt on the first listen to "Other Voices, Other Rooms." ( I owned 3 or 4 of her CD's by then )"Across the Great Divide," "Turn Around," "and especially "Comin' Down in the Rain" had a beautiful, melancholy mood ( if that makes sense ), which matched the blue mood I was in the day I bought the CD. It's been years since I've listened, but I bet I'll still feel nostalgic, and maybe a little blue.

@janhammer39

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lincoln for tuning in.

The light of heaven to you nancy

Hello nice song from Nancy. Best wishes to all music lovers from meschede sauerland

Love her… RIP, sweet Nanci

Shes a fantastic storyteller

I still miss you, Nanci.

Best of her earlier albums, imo